Atakapa

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Noun	1.	Atakapa - a member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas Attacapan Buffalo Indian, Plains Indian - a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America
	2.	Atakapa - a language spoken by the Atakapa of the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas Atakapan, Attacapa, Attacapan American-Indian language, Amerind, Amerindian language, American Indian, Indian - any of the languages spoken by Amerindians

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"); BRASSEAUX, ACADIAN TO Cajun, supra note 9, at 110-11 ("A great deal of confusion regarding [Francophones on the Opelousas and Attakapas prairies] existed among outsiders, who in [the years 1865-95] sometimes labeled them Creoles, sometimes Cajuns.

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Amongst these families on the Opelousas and Attakapas prairie the pattern of slave ownership changed very slowly throughout the Spanish period.

The "circum-Caribbean" and the continuity of cultures: the Donato Colony in Mexico, 1830-1860

(37) Luis Penalver y Cardenas, New Orleans, 12 September 1799, V-3-a, UNDA; Miguel Bernardo Barriere to Luis Penalver y Cardenas, Attakapas, La., 24 October 1800, V-3-e, UNDA.

"Though their skin remains brown, I hope their souls will soon be white": slavery, French missionaries, and the Roman Catholic priesthood in the American South, 1789-1865 (1)

For more than a quarter of century, the Attakapas country and the Opelousas prairies were populated by a group of men who contended that the cattle which fed upon the prairie were the property of those who caught them.

Property offenses, social tension and racial antagonism in post-Civil War rural Louisiana

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